Black Butterflies DVD (2011)

Black Butterflies

2011

TBC

Overall rating: 3.5 out of 5

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The film is a depiction of the life of Ingrid Jonker (1933-65) (played by Van Houten), an Afrikaner. Her parents divorced, she lives with her sister at her mother's. After the passing of her mother she and her sister come to live with their father (played by Hauer), who treats them as outsiders. Ingrid marries, and gives birth to a daughter, but the marriage doesn't last. It is the era of apartheid, of which her father is a strong proponent, being the South-Africa's Minister of Censorship. Ingrid is opposed to the apartheid regime, and has a strained relationship with her father. He opposes her relationship with author Jack Cope (played by Cunningham) and her anti-apartheid poetry, which is inciteful in his eyes. He tries to ban one of her works, which he eventually doesn't, fearing a widespread riot. As Ingrid keeps opposing the regime in her poetry, their relationship becomes even more strained and he tells her he never wants to see her ever again.

Black Butterflies details

Format:	TBC DVD
Starring:	Rutger Hauer, Rutger Hauer, Carice van Houten, Liam Cunningham, Nicholas Pauling
Director:	Paula van der Oest
Genres:	Drama - Biography, General, World Cinema